"You hold your farm under a grant from Gov. Wentworth?"
"I do?"
"You owe allegiance to him?"
"Certainly."
"You ought to obey his commands."
"Stay! I am a freeborn man. I willingly give service where service is needed, I willingly obey laws which are for the good of all, but I never yet agreed to obey any one man, whether he be governor or even king."
"And yet you have no right to the farm, save such as you received from the governor."
"You mistake the position. The original grant was for a tract of mountain land. That land is now mine because I have improved it, made it of value, and all I owe to the governor is the value of the unreclaimed lands.
"Will you not go to Concord and obey the governor's mandate?"
"Not until the governor himself asks me. When he invites me I will go; when he only commands I refuse to obey. Return and tell him so."